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Sunday, January 2, 2011

The storm is over

A big beautiful snow storm hit us earlier this week. Three feet of heavy snow came cannon balling out of the sky squashing our peach trees and pulling down power lines all around us.

We have wood heat so we stayed toasty warm but after the third night of candlelight dinners I was missing electricity. Many hours were luxuriously spent reading in front of the wood stove. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is a rip roaring fantasy novel that I am loving, loving, loving. It’s kind of an Oceans Eleven caper set in a kind of Renaissance Venice but on a beautifully dangerous planet with a charming gang of bad boys. At this point in the story they are sooooooo deep in trouble and obviously doomed I can’t believe they will survive - but they must, since there is a sequel already. And a movie. By Warner Brothers. Yes! If you like fantasy and don’t mind some violence and occasional cussing I highly recommend it.

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you are wintering well. The kit I am working on now is tentatively called Faeries of Frost Forest. It is being heavily influenced by the weather in my back yard. Hugs, Lorie

17 comments:

Christina
said...

Thanks for the book rec, just downloaded it to my Kindle. It looks like my kind of thing! (Also relieved you apparently don't mind occasional cussing as I just uploaded a page using your stuff that has a little rough language in the journaling!)

Hi Lorie, what a beautiful view! You totally look like you live near Sun Valley. My brother and his family used to live in Hailey, and he worked at Sun Valley as an electrician. I am an Idaho girl... even thought Arizona is my home. I was born in Poky and lived in IF mostly. Even though the snow is very beautiful, I sure don't miss it! Happy New Year

what a gorgeous photo and reality you live in. Love the teaser for the book, too.

i just downloaded this book just based on the reviews at amazon. sounds like it would be a good fit for your genre as well. i'm assuming you already know about miles vorkosigan, you do, don't you? if not, you must go quickly to your library to start reading.

wow this is sooo gorgeous! we live in sicily so it's not very likely to see snow (except on mount etna), this really makes me think of Dr Zivago and all the snow and frost covering everything, even if I understand that after 3 or 4 days without electricity it might loose some charme! thank you for sharing this little piece of your life with us.

beautiful photo!!! I had to show it to my coworkers down here in sunny CA. and now I'm ANXIOUSLY anticipating your new kit. I have purchased and enjoyed 99% of your kits! I would love a winter kit! My 4 yr old hasn't seen snow either but I need to take him! I love fantasy and also give a big recommendation for the Miles series (anything by Lois McMaster Bujold!) I just finished Cold Magic by Kate Elliot. Excellent.. probably along the lines of the book you're reading... it's kind of alternate history mish-mash with magic and a little of the victorian era. Kate Elliot is another favorite writer. Jaran is my favorite book of all time.thanks so much Lorie for being such a beautiful artist and sharing your work with us!Kristina

That is the most beautiful picture I've ever seen. To think that I actually know the person that lives there is even more awesome. Dont care much about 3 story mansions on the beach, all I can think of is how much it cost to cool the dang thing. You brought ohhhs and awe's to everyone here in Mississippi. Thanks for shareing it with us. What a wonderful magical place, and I'm so glad you have someone to share it with.

There's another week of blizzards on the way starting tonight. I'm keeping the tub full of water, we just bought a bunch more candles, and the generator is fixed. I think I'm ready. This certainly means more powder at the local ski hill. :)

Hi Lorie,Thanks so much for all your adorable kits. You are so talented and have such imagination. Love it.Wish you and hubby well for 2011 and good luck with all the wonderful kits coming this year!Hugs Lyn

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Hi, I am Lorie Davison and I am a scrapbook designer. Yay! I love designing scrapbooking kits as much as I love scrapbooking so I consider myself extremely lucky.
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My blog's new look!

The amazing Karen Valentine redesigned my blog. I could not figure out how to put Joelle's blinkie into the header so Karen did it for me and magically beautified my blog at the same time. Thank you so much Karen you are wonderful!!!

These fantastically talented artists use my designs for their creative products

Natalya Shevchenko is an amazing fantasy artist. She has for years been making elaborate beautiful story books for her family and now she is making them for her customers all over the world. She also creates cards, calendars, posters, and will organize your vacation pictures into a beautiful personalized scrapbook. Here is Natalya’s blog. While you are there you really should link to “Colored Memories of Distant Lands,” to see Natalya’s travel scrapbooks.

Lori Lawson ofImagination Blog Designshas been creating fantastic website designs with my kits for years. Her beautiful web designs are perfect for book reviewers and other creative writing types looking for blog layouts that match their fantastic ideas.

Sandra Tieks of TX-Design Geboortekaartjeshas a section of her store devoted to her incredible fairytale baby cards using my designs. Sandra also will put your photos into story books and cards of all kinds.

Cindy Grundsten of Cindy Art Design is a photographer, artist, photomanipulator, and illustrator who sells prints and offers her illustration services for everything from advertising to book covers. Here is some of her fantasy art atdeviantart.com.

Jitka Stejskalová ofFotostudio JS (you may know her by her scrapbooking name, Vrtule) is a multi-talented artist who specializes in almost all forms of digital photographic services.

Marianne Ottemann photographer and graphic designer extraordinaire also creates artistic greeting cards using my designs. You can see some of her cards here: https://www.otti.nl/

Pixelpole.com is using my "Summer Leaves, Autumn Tea" to create a book with your favorite child in it. It’s called “A Tale With Me In It." They wrote the story and illustrated the pages with everything and everyone in it except for the main character who, as it turns out, is the child of your choice. Basically you preview the book at Pixelpole.com, pose and take pics of your child, upload your pictures, they insert your pictures into the story, and send you the book. Pretty snazzy.

Sunbelievable just won the 2012Mom’s Choice Award and is getting great reviews. You can preview and buy it at Amazon. It’s also for sale at Barnes and Noble and, probably, at your local bookstore. AND some of my designs were used in the book.